ITALY: For Keeps?

Romans who knew enough English to pun called
him "The Little Flour." UNRRA Director Fiorello LaGuardia snapped right
back with a warning that, although he knew food supplies were low, the
Italians could not expect more help from abroad.

Wolf at the Door. In spite of his bitter news, Italy's Constituent
Assembly cheered him when he addressed it in Italian, sprinkled with
Broadwayese. When he reminded the Italians that UNRRA had poured into
the country $450.000,000 of supplies ("quello non é pagliathat ain't
hay"), the city of Rome gave him a silver replica of the she-wolf
nursing Romulus and Remus....